Open world co-op survival game suggestions please!

[Haggisman]

A bunch of us play together quite frequently, and are possibly looking for a new game to get stuck into.

So far we have played (in no particular order):

Factorio
Minecraft
Project Zomboid
The Forest (this is what we're currently on)

Must haves:

- Support at least 6 players
- Crafting/building (as you can see from the games above, this is a recurring theme )
- Persistent dedicated server (as we are not always on at the same time and it's a pain having to share saves and change who is hosting depending on who is around)

Our server machine isn't hugely powerful:

I3-4170t/8gb ram/Integrated graphics

Been perfectly adequate so far, but may struggle with anything with really high requirements.

Games we've considered:

- Osiris: New Dawn, although we're not sure of the longevity as it's in early stages still.
- Ark: Survival Evolved, heard bad things about the performance, and looking at the dedicated server requirements, this may be pushing it
- Life is feudal, just been looking at this, but the reviews aren't great!

Basically looking for games similar to the above, where you can drop in/out for a few hours and have a laugh together, any suggestions welcome

 

[FrenchTart]

Factorio with mods?

Don't Starve Together probably isn't quite in the right ball park but it's worth considering.

 

[Emlyn_Dewar]

Have you considered Terraria?

 

[corkhead]

7 days to die

 

[Kyrne]

Unturned

 

[jasoncb]

7 days to die

This

 

[Haggisman]

I think we've done factorio to death (to the point we had so many robots that one of the guys couldn't connect as his PC crashed every time )

Have played don't Starve together a while ago, but I didn't realise it had a dedicated server, so might have to look into that one some more, will check out the other suggestions, thanks

 

[FrenchTart]

Terraria is a very good shout too to be honest

 

[Westie]

Fortnite

comes out tomorrow if u preorder today!

 

[uroboros]

Rust?

 

[JoeFX]

This

+1 for 7 Days to Die

 

[Mark A]

Yet another vote for 7 days to die. It seems like it would be the perfect match for you.

 

[Haggisman]

Yeah it does look pretty much what we're looking for cheers!

 

[loftie]

Starbound maybe? I do prefer Terraria tbh though.

 

[Lee C]

Another vote for rust but be prepared to lose your life.

 

[LateX'Dog]

Fortnite releases in 4 days, might be worth a try?

 

[~>Dg<~]

Rust is what id play.big player base updated regular fun to play.

 

[Rroff]

Never found an open world survival game that has really drawn me in - most seem to either require far too much investment versus unreliable servers or far too full on hardcore to be interesting past the initial novelty so end up being a grind for the simplest of things or overdone "realism" gets in the way of any enjoyment or just have some truly awful implementation of game controls and/or mechanics that are just pants on head and you wonder what on earth the developer was thinking.

 

[LateX'Dog]

Never found an open world survival game that has really drawn me in

I feel that would be because of the main core hook of the game. The premise of the game is you build a base and then you go and destroy other peoples, a bit like children at the beach with their sandcastles.

 

[Rroff]

I feel that would be because of the main core hook of the game. The premise of the game is you build a base and then you go and destroy other peoples, a bit like children at the beach with their sandcastles.

I spent plenty of time doing that in Eve Online - well more the knocking over of other people's sand castles - sadly very few other parties would try to siege us.